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Alan

I am here for Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me


Myspace Layouts and Images - Hi everyone,I'm Alan Mitnick, and thank you for visiting. For almost two years, I've run a profile here at Myspace, and I've met some absolutely fantastic people. Mainly, I'm here to keep in touch with my students (they'd much rather contact me here than, say, stop by my office!), but I'm open to making new friends as well-please, though, don't contact me to add you or accept my invitation if you have no intention of writing-I will delete you once that becomes clear. Life is too damned short to be wasting it creating big friend totals here!This part used to be so much more expansive, but now I'm going with a "mystery man" approach-sorry, but you're going to have to make some effort to get to know me...try it, though...c'mon, Simon Sez! Layout made by infamous_chiq at CreateBlog.com .

My Interests

guitar playing, writing, reading, tennis, cooking and baking (especially anything chocolate!), hanging out with friends and family, checking out bookstores and movies, praise and worship, reading to a beautiful woman and enjoying and learning from whatever life presents me.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who realizes what a gift and opportunity this life is, no one who complains about being bored (those who say this just are not trying hard enough!).If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands and then write to me!If you're evil, self centered, a slave to some substance (chocolate is exempt here), wring your hands with concern and then write to anyone else!I'm told that I'm a "nice guy," and the friends I presently have here (and in "real" life) all are superswellfantastic peoples too-be one if you want to be my buddypal, misters and misteresses!Layout made by infamous_chiq at CreateBlog.com .

Music:

classic rock: Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Miles Davis, The Beatles, King's X, Jim Campilongo, The Little Willies, Les Paul, Danny Gatton, The Stones, Lyle Lovett, Marvin Gaye, Leonard Cohen, Cheap Trick, Pink Floyd, Government Mule, most blues performers, many jazz artists...really, I'll listen to just about anything at least once....

Movies:

I'm partial to comedies-who doesn't need a good laugh now and then?. I really like Cary Grant films, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Support Your Local Sheriff, Caddyshack, Fletch, Vacation...I've spent many an hour watching the classic dramas shown on AMC, TCM, etc-there are just too many to list here...

Television:

Seinfeld, Scrubs, Monk, Psych, Adult Swim shows, Food Network, Letterman and Conan....

Books:

I wouldn't know where to start-I'm a reader, a voracious one at that...Delillo, Carver, Saroyan, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Boyle-I have stacks of books on top of stacks of books...Robert Fripp once said, "me and a book is a party; me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy"...yeah, what he said! :)

Heroes:

Christ, my brother Steven, who lived his life and faced his death with indomitable faith, Lincoln, Franklin, Frederick Douglass, George Costanza :)

My Blog

Newest of new poems

Put It In Writing, and THEN Try to Recant      -for the recent recipient of her first collectible book. They will stand in a museum and marvel at cuneiform, The intellectual...
Posted by Alan on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:01:00 PST

a 2:02 am poem...

Such Sweet Sorrow   Was I waiting for this memory, The taste of your hair, Down, Brown, its insistent Dangling, hanging around, a jealous pre-teen sister trying to spoil a sibling's amorous date...
Posted by Alan on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:19:00 PST

Hit The Road, 2007

Here's what I didn't like about this year:-January...well, that's a long time ago, and I can't remember much about it...still...ok, I've got something: January is named after Janus, the Roman Two-face...
Posted by Alan on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:13:00 PST

New Poem-

Lincoln Park Airport Two Ford pickup trucks pull nose to nose, From the bottom of the clouds they must look like an arrowhead As another SUV rolls between and behind them into the viewing area, Close...
Posted by Alan on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:31:00 PST

Haiku Contest #3

Haiku Contest Entries Title: Giving up on love Love is not for me Lost is the one I adore Never again ever Author: Adam the Mann-----------------------------------------1- I had your heart dear But yo...
Posted by Alan on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:16:00 PST

Ok folks, no more bulletins about your being bored...

Some of you, my students, have heard me speak on this in classes whenever I've heard someone say, "I was so bored last night..." etc.My usual response is, and I echo it here, "How could you have been ...
Posted by Alan on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:36:00 PST

Attention English Majors...

So, What Can You do with an English Degree? Frequently, students majoring in English ask me for a list of the jobs they can do when they graduate. My response is that there is good news and better new...
Posted by Alan on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:16:00 PST

Haiku Contest .2-the poems!

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Posted by Alan on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:30:00 PST

Five-variable Love Test

Your Five Variable Love Profilehttp://images.blogthings.com/thefivevariablelovetest/ love.jpg" height="100" width="100">Propensity for Monogamy:Your propensity for monogamy is high.You find it easy to ...
Posted by Alan on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:34:00 PST

Looooong new survey-kind of funny

~*All About Yourself*~ ~*Basics*~ What's your real name?: Alan Julius Mitnick Do you like it?: Sure, why not? What does it mean?: Alan means "wise one"-I didn't say it was accurate! What i...
Posted by Alan on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:12:00 PST